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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 14.

MONDAY, 6TH MAY, 1889.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G.)

The Honourable the Colonial Secretary (FREDERICK STEWART).

the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN Leach).

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the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.). the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES). PHINEAS RYRIE.

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CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK, (vice the Honourable JOHN BELL-IRVING).

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 2nd instant, were read and confirmed:

PAPERS. The Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table; the following papers, viz. :-

Despatches respecting the French and German Mail Steamers. (No. 3). Returns of Births and Deaths for the year 1888. (No. 19).

BILL ENTITLED THE CHINESE EXTRADITION ORDINANCE, 1889.-The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of this Bill.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a first time.

BILL ENTITLED THE PASSENGERS RELIEF ORDINANCE, 1889.-The Acting Attorney General moved the second reading of this Bill.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a second time.

The Council then went into Committee on the Bill.

Bill reported with a verbal amendment.

The Acting Attorney General then moved that the Bill be read a third time.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a third time.

Question put-that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance 18 of 1889.

BILL ENTITLED THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS ORDINANCE, 1889.-The Bill, as amended and revised at the last meeting, having been reprinted, the Council, on the motion of the Acting Attorney General, resumed Committee on it.

Bill reported with some verbal amendments.

The Acting Attorney General then moved that the Bill be read a third time.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a third time.

Question put-that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance 19 of 1889.

ADJOURNMENT.—The Governor then adjourned the Council till Friday, the 10th instant, at 4 P.M.

Read and confirmed, this 16th day of May, 1889.

ARATHOON SETE, Clerk of Councils.

G. WILLIAM DES Vœux,

Governor.